When the user revolt ends—if it ever does—Reddit’s community won’t ever be the same.

“They’re shooting themselves in the foot,” Mir says. “The content of the users is what makes the platform worth visiting. These hosts kind of run into this confusion that their hosting is the reason people are going there, but it’s really for the other users on the medium.”

  • Elysium@beehaw.orgEnglish
    34·
    1 year ago

    I hope Redditors don’t cave and cease protesting, clearly it’s working if Reddit has to force subs to reopen.

    • Smellmop@beehaw.orgEnglish
      26·
      1 year ago

      I haven’t been on since the 10th and I was on it near constantly before that. If reddit sync isn’t going to be around 10 days from now then I have no plans to use the site anything like I used to. I literally have no desire to learn their crappy app and lose the curated experience I had set up for myself. The only redditing I plan for the future is googling for specific questions in niche communities.

      • Elysium@beehaw.orgEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        The only redditing I plan for the future is googling for specific questions in niche communities.

        Same, though you could possibly find some non Reddit answers to your questions

        • worfamerryman@beehaw.orgEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          That’s kinda what I have been doing. Sadly Reddit has Ana amazing database for tech stuff. Luckily I was able to find most of my info in non-Reddit spaces.

      • TechyDad@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I went back on briefly today for the first time to:

        • Make sure I had read all my replies.

        • Check the Boost subreddit to confirm it was going dark at the end of the month. (There was an update so I was wondering if there was some hope of it saying online.)

        • Check is the two subreddits I actually still care about are closed. (One is. Another isn’t.)

        I didn’t read any posts (except in the Boost subreddit to confirm that it was being shut down) and definitely didn’t comment or post anything. After that brief check in, I’m not going back for some time.

    • Michael Kazarnowicz@beehaw.orgEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      Same here. I’m trying to find other ways to support the protests. The community I’m moderating there will migrate over to here (yay!) but I don’t expect more than a couple hundred to move. I will keep moderating the community over there (because we’re a gay community and a safe space for trans men which is sorely lacking on Reddit), but I’ve deleted the app from my phone and only use old.reddit.com with uBlock origin to make sure I’m not contributing to Reddit’s bottom line.